Common Common Environment Sedimentary Rock Sedimentary Common Fossils Name Types Structures high energy, conglomerate, cross-beds,ripple oxidizing stream - channel sandstone marks environment with few fossils terrestrial plants stream - floodplain shale mud cracks and animals high energy, conglomerate, poorly sorted, cross- oxidizing alluvial fan arkose beds environment with few fossils desert dune well sorted, large terrestrial reptile sandstone (aeolian) scale cross-beds traces angular to rounded high energy grains, poorly sorted, glacier - till tillite environment with unstratified few fossils (massive) high energy, ripple marks, cross- sandstone, oxidizing glacier - outwash beds, similar to conglomerate environment with stream channel few fossils cross-beds, ripple swamp coal plant fossils marks, mud cracks conglomerate, graded beds, thin lake dwelling lake sandstone, shale, beds, varves, ripple organisms freshwater limestone marks, mud cracks TRANSITIONAL where land meets ocean Common Common Environment Sedimentary Rock Sedimentary Common Fossils Name Types Structures marine and terrestrial plants, nonmarine possible cross-beds, delta mollusk shells, mudstone, siltstone, ripple marks bioturbation sandstone, coal fine to medium- mollusk shells, beach sandstone grained, well-sorted, bioturbation cross-beds mudstone, siltstone, fine-grained, ripple mollusk shells, tidal flat sandstone, possible marks, cross-beds, bioturbation evaporites mud cracks MARINE in the ocean Environment Common Common Common Fossils Name Sedimentary Rock Sedimentary Types Structures fish, coral, mollusk limestone, shale, cross-beds, ripple shelf/platform shells, sponges, sandstone marks echinoderms reef limestone massive coral mudstone, graded beds, microscopic slope/rise graywacke turbidites plankton chert, chalk, microscopic deep marine thin beds limestone, mudstone plankton shallow restricted extreme chemical gypsum, anhydrite, mud cracks, thin circulation in arid environment with halite beds, salt casts hot climate few fossils